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Sunday, May 5, 2013

Natural Gifts in Your Choice of a Career

Multiple
Intelligences

Whether you are just beginning to
choose your life’s work or are contemplating a mid-career change, factors other
than normal IQ should influence your decision. Howard Gardner had put the theory
of multiple intelligences in the 1980‘s, and it has substantially revised how a
person’s public perception is viewed. His book, Frames of Mind: The Theory of
Multiple Intelligences, sites eight different areas that are not fully assessed
by any IQ test and yet profoundly contribute to one’s extensive knowledge by
taking into account how people differ in their methods of learning.

Image credit: iqoncept / 123RF Stock PhotoDepending
upon one’s natural tendencies, an individual learns best through certain
specific areas of the brain. People uncomfortable with Gardner’s theories claim
that he has isolated abilities or aptitudes rather than intelligences.
Nevertheless, this notion of varied intelligences may assist you in your search
for the best career advice to suit your natural gifts.

Visual and Spatial Intelligence

One of the most stunning areas
examined is spatial intelligence. It is a person’s ability to learn visually
and to believe in pictures. A person can expect physical objects in 3D with remarkable
accuracy. The imagined object can then be rotated, adjusted from the
original image and can be viewed from different angles, all within the mind’s
eye.

Visual and spatial intelligence allows a person to see the outcome
of manipulating an idea in his or her mind before actually touching the actual item
in question. While visual and spatial intelligence are closely related,
spatial intelligence is the ability to create an image of an object in the mind
without ever seeing it.

Visual and Spatial Intelligence
Characteristics

If you have this ability, you can
imagine vividly and follow the planned course of nature and its aftermath in
your mind before taking the first step. You are particularly good at
remembering a picture, map reading, puzzle solving, have a strong sense of
color and often have strong little motor skills. You can easily identify
patterns and are good at interpreting charts and graphs. Finally, you have the
ability to make a decent kind of information in a variety of forms.
Understanding this type of information within yourself can help guide you to a rewarding career choice.

Career advice

Architect - The ability to create a solid design
in mind before a single stone is laid is a tremendous asset to an
architect. The career demands appropriate spatial arrangement of almost
every aspect.

Visual
Artist- Painter, Sculptor, Illustrator, Photographer - All of
these requires the ability to render an idea into a physical
manifestation. The ability to render objects in the correct proportion
and color are equally indispensable.
Cartographer - Mapmakers of the earth, sea, and, sky, are often
charting places they have never seen and yet, they have guided travellers for
thousands of years. Again, creating the correct spatial relationship of
objects to one another is central to this skill.
Design: Graphic, Interior, Fashion - These three disciplines all pull
from the ability to visualize the finished product and its role with perfect
accuracy. Skills with color, dimensions and construction are all
essential to successful design.